A Dissertation on the Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries

enjoy the highest truth, so he who was conversant with fallacies would hereafter be tormented with fallacies and delusions in the extreme; as the one would be delighted with true objects of enjoyment, so the other would be tormented with delusive semblances of reality."

"Finally, to summarize the opinion of the ancient theologists regarding the state of the soul after death in a few words: they believed that divine things alone (as we have said elsewhere) exist as true, and that all other things are merely images and shadows of true things. Therefore, prudent men who apply themselves to divine matters are, more than others, awake. But imprudent men who pursue other things are completely deluded, as if sleeping in dreams, and if they die in this sleep before they are awakened, they are tormented by similar and even sharper visions after their departure. And just as..."